Resource Over Allocation
I'm using Project 2000. I am needing to identify by resource group any overallocations. Based on the nature of the projects it appears the easiest way to do this is to assign by groups not individuals. My thought process is to make resources such as Engineering, Testing, QC, etc. I have a couple of questions regarding this approach:
1. Would I change the max unit % in the Resource Sheet to correspond with the number of individuals in the Group. Such as if there are 10 Engineers the max unit % would be 1,000?
2. Is there a way then to show the amount of hours not tasked for the day/week?
I hope this makes sense. Thanking everyone in advance. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69160
Date format in Header
Hi all,
Trying to do something simple but not having much luck.
In the header/footer of a task sheet, I'm trying to get
the saved date to print in the format 'd mmm, yyyy'. The
default format for the date in the project is DDD yy mmm
dd, and I'd like to keep that for now. Is there a way to
use switches to alter the date format in the
header/footer?
--dkp Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69159
Resource cost clarification
How do I set specific parameters to my material resouce cost? In other
words, 10ft. of pipe costs $15 and for task 3 I will use 3 units (30 ft.). Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69154
Customising Fields
Is it possible to customise the Baseline Cost field? I have tried via Tools,
Customise, Fields and although Cost is specified as a type, Baseline Cost is
not included in the list. Currently it allows me to overtype any of the
baseline cost fields and does not rollup the figures to the summary tasks. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69147
MS Project - Web Approach???
Hi,
Is possible to use MS Project over the web?
Actually I am looking for tool for:
- Project Planning/scheduling
- Resource Management
- Project Collaboration
- Risk Management
I need fast track what resources are on which project (web based).
Please, I need help in this. If is possible to do that please tell me how,
if is not I would like to know what alternative is?
THANKS Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69144
Changing work
I have a task set up as fixed work and effort driven.
Its set up to 40 hours work.
When assigning one resource to 100 % everything is ok.=20
The duration i set up to 40 h.
When changing the allocation to 80 % the duration is set=20
to 50 h. So far so good.
After this I assign one additional resource and set that=20
one and the previous to 50 %.=20
Now the duration is set to 49.23 hours. The work still is=20
40 h.
I don=B4t understand this calculation. Anyone else who does. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69142
Printing Multiple Reports
Currently using both MS Project 2002 and 2003.
On a current project I'm having to print as many as 20 reports at a time for
various stakeholders. Has anyone seen/got a macro that they've developed to
automate or batch multiple reports ? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69140
Add button and resource name is dimmed when build team from enterprise
Dear expert,
Add button and resource name is dimmed when I will build
team from enterprise.
so i can't select and add resource to project team
resource. why? and how fixed it?
I am using microsoft Project Professional 2003 and Project
Server 2003 upgrade from project server 2002. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69131
setting task starting time by hour?
I have a weekend project that starts on Friday night and
finishes Monday morning.
How do I tell Project 2000 to start a task at a specific
time (say 8 pm) on a specific date (say august 6), but not
at 8 am (which is the native start time)? The start/finish
format doesn't seem to have an obvious way to designate
specific times to start or finish.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Andy Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69129
Project Hangs
I have a client who uses Project 2000 on Windows NT.
Frequently, Project hangs and they receive a Dr. Watson
error. They have 512M of memory and 1700 tasks. Any ideas?
Thanks! Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69127
Filters to include the Summary Task
I would like to filter on % complete, resource and date.
That is no problem, but if a task is selected by the
filter, I would also like to include its immediate
summary task. How do I pull this in? The summary task
typically doesn't have the resource name on it. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69121
Printing a report of % completed?
Hi, is there a way in project 2002 to print a report that merely tells you all the work that has 'not' yet been completed and what their %'s are?
Right now I have a custom column that is % complete, my boss has given me the oh so fun task of figuring out how to just print the report based on that column, whats left to work on and the percent. Please help =)
-Jason Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69119
Sharing Calendar
I am using 2003 standard and I have created a calendar for our company with
the specific days off that we take. I want to use this canendar in all my
projects. Is there a way to make the default or at least share this
calendar? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69117
Adjust task bar height
I have yet to figure out how to adjust the task bar height
on my project so that the longer named tasks can be seen
within the bar on the screen and when I print my project.
I guess what I'm looking for is something similar to
the "Justify" option for cells in MS Excel. Any ideas??? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69112
Multi-Project Resource Leveling with Project Server 2003
Do you open multiple enterprise projects in MS
Professional 2003 and then resource leveling, saving all
projects back to the project server? Or do you have to
dump all the enterprise resources into a separate
project, then open all enterprise projects you want to
level across, level them, and then save them back to the
server? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69111
Indicators don't show in printing
My project view includes the Indicators column and it shows icons in both
view and in Print Preview.
Yet when I print it, the cells in this column are blank.
Any ideas? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69106
Project WG for Outlook
We are trying to use the task based feature of project
with outlook with good results but have two systems that
keep getting an ole error. WGSETUP.EXE is what is needed
to bring project and outlook together to deligate task to
specfic people within outlook. The error I keep getting
on the systems is "One or more OLE controls failed during
initialazation. Reinstall workgroup features and then try
agian." We try do the reinstall and it open outlook and
get the same message.
Any Ideas or help on this greatly appreaciated. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69102
Document libraries in PWA
We are a software house just starting to pilot MS Project
2003 & Project Server.
I want to ask our project managers to publish product
development documentation via the PWA Documents page.
There are different sets of doc for different phases of
the development lifecycle, e.g. specification, testing,
beta etc
So ideally I would like to get a standard set of libraries
to come up when the subweb is created for the project upon
publication to the project server.
Surely this must be possible via Sharepoint but I can't
see a way of doing it. Can anyone help please? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69101
assigning more than one parent task to a sub task
Hi,
I'd like to share 2 parent tasks for a sub task.
for example:
The sub task is "meet a & b"
currently placed under parent task called "finishing initial plan"
I'd like it also to appear under parent task "meetings" - not as a copy, but as the same task, just with 2 parent references.
How can it be done ? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69095
Preventing task going accross two days
I have MS Poject sort all of my jobs by priority then
schedule them based on based on available resources. All
jobs are less then a day in duration so when the next job
will not fit into the balance of a day, I want it to be
moved to the next day. To complicate matters I then want
project to identify the next highext priority job that
can be scheduled into what was left of the previous day.
Any suggestions or am I asking to much? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69082
Date and Time stamping on tasks
Is it possible to track date and or time stamping on tasks being updated so you can track oldest tasks to current updated tasks. I am working on a large project plan of over 6500 tasks and to enable me to track tasks more efficiently, we want to be able to sort tasks that haven't been updated in a while.
Can that be done? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69081
entering bills and invoices
is it possible to enter multiple entries into the "actual
cost" column of a single task or resource then be able to
review each seperate entry? (i.e. in construction a
project may have 50 tool rentals that all belong to
the "tool rental" task) Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69079
Project 2002 vs. Project 2003
What are the key differences between the two products? Why should I upgrade to 2003? How does it function with Sharepoint (if it does, where can I find out how to set it up)?
Thanks, Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69074
Varying Weekly Hours for One Task?
I am trying to schedule a software architect to execute a singel task over an 8 week period. The first week, they will dedicate 30 hours, each week thereafter, they will dedicate 10 hours.
How can I track this variable hour allocation within a single task?
Much Obliged,
Chris McTiernan Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69073
%Work Complete vs. %Complete (Duration) in E.V. Calculations
It seems to me that there is a lot of tension between the
concept of duration and the concept of work in MSP. I
imagine that MSP was originally designed to work with
duration only and that work was an afterthought, which
has still never been fully integrated into the product.
MS, for example, allows you to enter and update duration
and % Complete through the Task Information and the
Update Tasks dialog box, but not Work & %WorkComplete!
And MSP uses % Complete to calculate earned value (SPI,
CPI) rather than %WorkComplete, which seems ludicrous. I
really expected that they would use % Work Complete for
this calculation, since earned value is all about WORK:
planned, burned and earned. And %Work Complete can be a
radically different value than the % Complete on projects
at any given point in time. WORK is cumulative (a real
sum) under the project summary task, whereas duration is
not!
As must be apparent, I've got some real frustration about
the way MSP deals with these concepts, so if you know of
any papers that elucidate this problem, I'd love to know
about them. It seems like the MSP team has been avoiding
or patching a problem when they really ought to
completely revamp their approach to statusing projects.
Why can't we enter actual work and remaining work through
the Update Task dbox, for example. Is it that MSP code
won't support it? Why not? Why do they keep asking
about remaining duration instead of remaining work?
I'd be glad to hear anyone's thoughts on the subject, as
well as to hear about any MS white papers or papers from
other sources that clarify what seems like a big problem
to me. I may be wrong, but I smell a rat buried in the
MSP woodwork. It may be that I just haven't grasped it
yet. Very possible. I'm interested in hearing other
ideas on this subject.
Sincerely,
Dave Oliver Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69067
Converting Project 2003 to Project 98
I have a plan (2003) that has calendars associated with
tasks so that I can have a task start at a particular
time of day. When I convert this to P98 (to share with
someone), it strips the calendars out. Can you tell me
how to avoid this, or remind me how to achieve the same
effect in P98? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69062
Troubleshooting Circular References
Hi, all,
My partner and I are crashing on a set of updates to a
master with 24 or so subplans.
In some cases, as we are trying to alter or fill in
predecessors and successors, we get the "cannot accept
entry, circular reference..." or words to that effect.
And it seems nothing we can do makes a difference,
including deleting all of the entries in both columns in
that block of tasks (all the ones under a summary task).
Upon attempt to link to a task external to that subplan
draws the same error, but in neither cases does project
identify what line number is the problem.
Any ideas? We are in MSP 2003 std and MSP 2002 prof (1 of
each), and are getting the same indication on both
machines.
TIA
Rick Walker
WA State Department of Corrections Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69056
Forecasted finish date using partially completed task info
I have a task whose Planned finish date is 7/15/04. As of
7/22, the task is marked as 75% complete. Is there a way
to see what the projected finish date of the task, and the
overall project is, assuming that there are dependant
tasks to this task?
I know that once I add the "Actual Finish Date" into the
task information, thereby making the task 100% complete,
dependant tasks will move out accordingly. What I am
looking for, however, is a view/report to estimate what
the projected Task and/or Project Finish date would be by
calculating the partial completion of overdue tasks.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
thanks Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69054
What can be done about the recent spamming?
I read these groups several times a week and always find valuable
inforamation that I am able to leverage in my own Project
environments. I just noticed someone has decided to start being funny
by posting answers that simply state "use primavera". Aside from
ignoring it and hoping the adolesent finds a friend of the same or
opposite sex (depending on preference) to divert their attention what
can we do to eliminate the likes of this troll? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69050
Wrong year shows on 'Print Preview'
My project is scheduled in 2004/2005 but when I go to
Print Preview it shows year 2002? any suggestions? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69044
Outlook/Project Reminder
hello!
I'm trying to locate the three necessary files needed
below in order to set a MS Outlook reminder from MS
Project 2000. If anyone can tell me where I can get these
I would appreciate it!
December 10, 2001 18:15:51 9.0.2001.1210 6,164,480
Winproj.exe
December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.1109 294,966
Atlconv.dll
December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.703 782,389
Pj9od9.dll Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69041
PRJ: Set Reminder Command Is Unavailable
PRJ: Set Reminder Command Is Unavailable, I've located the
help page on Microsoft, however, I can't get to the actual
files to download, any suggestions/help?
Date Time Version Size
File name
-----------------------------------------------------------
------------
December 10, 2001 18:15:51 9.0.2001.1210 6,164,480
Winproj.exe
December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.1109 294,966
Atlconv.dll
December 10, 2001 18:15:50 9.0.2001.703 782,389
Pj9od9.dll Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69037
gbui Error - cannot open Project
Running MSProject 2003 w/ Office 2003 SP1 on WinXP SP1,
and all latest updates.
When I try to open Project, I get an error which begins:
"The command is trying to use a web page from
gbui://mainpage.htm/. You have not identified this site
as a trusted site in Ineternet Explorer."
Has anyone else received this and fixed it? What was the
resolution? Nothing on MS Support as of Aug 3 16:00 GMT. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69034
Is it possible to have a value list for a custom field to be filled by a table?
Hi,
I'm new to Project 2003/Project server 2003 and I was wondering if it is
possible to have a value list for a custom field filled with values from a
table in for example Access (or any other database).
If yes, could anyone point me in the proper direction for additional
info/reading.
Thanks in Advance,
Tonco Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69033
Filter
Hello All,
I need a custom filter to show all Summary task that have
a predecessor or successor. Can anyone help me out here?
Thanks in advance,
Cheryl Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69032
Resource entries
Greetings:
I am working with Project Professional 2003 without a
server. As I enter resources, I find that I cannot
include specific services and products. In this case, A
lighting company offers spot lights, strobe lights, fog
effects, etc. Each have different rates and some have
different fixed setup fees in addition to the time of
service. How can I use project to allow for this? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69031
Using Project files over a WAN
Anyone ever use project files over a WAN. We are using Project 2000. Pulling up files is no problem but when we go to make changes to the file (ie. CTL+X and CTL+C) project appears to hang. Everything works okay with Word, Excel and Access. It's just with Microsoft Project. Any thoughts? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69028
Missing servername in notification mails
Just as wanted the project server sends out the notification mails to all
users. Unfortunately
a few users get their notification mails from the server linking to their
tasks looking like this:
//{servername}/ProjectServer/...
Note: The servername is not specified. Any ideas? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69024
Baseline Finish - test for null
I am in the Customise Fields formula box, testing for
blanks in Baseline Finish in an Iif statement.
I am trying to test for a null value or blanks in Baseline
Finish (or Baseline Start)in a Custom Formula.
I have tried testing for NA,"NA", na,"na", isnull
statements, isdate statements and others!!.
Can't get it to work.
Would appreciate your help.
Am using Proj 2002 Std.
Regards............Geoff Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69022
Backup of global.mpt
Hi to all,
I would like to know how I can backup my global.mpt file, with all the
forms and not only modules.
Any suggestion?
Gabriele Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69019
Importing Resources From Excel to Tasks in Project 2003
I am trying to Import a set of Resources with Estimated Hours(Work) per Resource per Task from an Excel spreadsheet and match these resources with their respective Tasks in Project 2003. I am not having much success. I have tried merging the resources to the task lists but only one resource is assigned to the task even if there are multiple resources per task. Does anyone know how to overcome this?
Basically i have a spreadsheet with the following;
Task No.1 Resource1 8hrs
Task No.1 Resource2 4hrs
Task No.1 Resource3 2hrs
Task No.2 Resource1 2hrs
Task No.2 Resource2 2hrs and so on...
I need to match the resources and work with the respective Task numbers.
Thanks in advance. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69018
Find Dates/Days in various MS applications
Question someone please answer the best way to accomplish
the followoing and also how to do it.
To figure out which day of the week is February 29, 2008.
What do you reach for first? Outlook, MS Project, Excel?
Similar question looking for the year when February 29 is
a Tuesday? Explain Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 69007
Help/Tutorial Error
I've done a complete install of MS Project Pro 2002. I'm
running W2K Pro machine, and when I try to access the
help/tutorial, says CAn't start MS Help. When I try to
goto the tutorial, I get an error message: msohelp.exe
Application error. I've got admin rights to the machine
and tried the one KB article of clearing the temp.
internet files, and installed SP1 and neither worked. Any
ideas??? Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68995
Adjusting Hours Globally
I'm using Project 2003 and have a task list estimate for development work. I'd like to add an X factor (%) to the number of hours given me to more accurately reflect the real world time that this project will take.
Any suggestions?
Thanks. Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68992
Issues and Risks
Hello! All,
In an effort to take that Issues and Risks of all the
plans on Project Server. The client has opted to place all
of the name of the plans into project schedule in order to
track the issues and risks in one location instead of
looking at each plan under the Issues and Risks Screens in
PWA. This was done because it appeared to be the quickest
solution to an immediate need--since a rollup
customization of Issues and Risks would require a little
bit of time.
Therefore,I have encountered a problem where I need to
resolve the following items:
1) Not all users can see Issues and Risks of a particular
plan.
2) Some users can see the plan but can not access it.
3) Not all global resources appear in the "owner/submitted
by" drop down list.
Did I lose anyone??? Help---Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Andrea Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68991
project 98 converter
Would anyone know the exact name and-or location of the
download that enables Project 98 to read MS Project files
of more recent versions?
Thanks Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68987
Unexpected changes in % complete column for summary
I have a large schedule in Proj.98, which has many
summaries and sub-tasks. One of my second level summaries
changed from 20% to 0%, and I can't figure out why or how
to get it back. I did the calculations, and there should
be a % there, but it shows 0%.
Thanks,
Angela Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68982
change background color for task name
Actually, I have a client who wants to change the
background for the task information, based on the custom
color he has placed in the gantt chart. I can change the
font color, but can't seem to change the background.
Does anyone know how, or know of an article or helpfile
that shows this is not an option?
THANK YOU!!!
Zander Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68979
pre-release evaluation file issues
I am trying to open an mpp file and I get an error message
that says
"File format not supported. this file was created in a
pre-release version of Project and cannot be opened."
Has anyone out there encounted this error? And if so do
you have any suggestions about how I could open the file?
Thanks.
-Jeb Tag: Compatable with Zire 72 Tag: 68978
Can anyone tell me if MS Project 2000 can be used with
Zire 72?
Thank you